https://padlet.com/abigail_hofmeister/id9u5pjs7y3y My one-pager based on William Faulkner's 1930 novel en-us 2017-11-01 18:29:23 UTC 2026-02-02 15:35:31 UTC hello@padlet.com abigail_hofmeister https://padlet.com/abigail_hofmeister/id9u5pjs7y3y/wish/202664773 “ . . . t h e r e a s o n f o r l i v i n g w a s t o g e t r e a d y t o s t a y d e a d a l o n g t i m e . ” ]]> 2017-11-01 18:38:49 UTC https://padlet.com/abigail_hofmeister/id9u5pjs7y3y/wish/202664773 abigail_hofmeister https://padlet.com/abigail_hofmeister/id9u5pjs7y3y/wish/202682048 2017-11-01 19:16:11 UTC https://padlet.com/abigail_hofmeister/id9u5pjs7y3y/wish/202682048 abigail_hofmeister https://padlet.com/abigail_hofmeister/id9u5pjs7y3y/wish/202682433 “          .          .           .     t  h  e           r  e  a  s  o  n           f  o  r           l  i  v  i  n  g           w  a  s           t  o           g  e  t           r  e  a  d  y            t  o           s  t  a  y           d  e  a  d           a           l  o  n  g           t  i  m  e          .          ” ]]> 2017-11-01 19:16:58 UTC https://padlet.com/abigail_hofmeister/id9u5pjs7y3y/wish/202682433 abigail_hofmeister https://padlet.com/abigail_hofmeister/id9u5pjs7y3y/wish/202682999 “          .          .           .     t  h  e           r  e  a  s  o  n           f  o  r           l  i  v  i  n  g           w  a  s           t  o           g  e  t           r  e  a  d  y            t  o           s  t  a  y           d  e  a  d           a           l  o  n  g           t  i  m  e          .          ” ]]> 2017-11-01 19:18:13 UTC https://padlet.com/abigail_hofmeister/id9u5pjs7y3y/wish/202682999 abigail_hofmeister https://padlet.com/abigail_hofmeister/id9u5pjs7y3y/wish/202685019 A coffin like the one that was built for Addie]]> 2017-11-01 19:23:39 UTC https://padlet.com/abigail_hofmeister/id9u5pjs7y3y/wish/202685019 abigail_hofmeister https://padlet.com/abigail_hofmeister/id9u5pjs7y3y/wish/204001677 I think that Vardaman said that his mother was a fish because it represents the impermanence of human life. Vardaman is struggling with existential thoughts while holding this fish that was breathing just moments ago. It was a fish, and then it was dead. In the same way, this is how Vardaman is processing his first brush with a human death - Addie was his living, breathing mother - and then she was not. ]]> 2017-11-06 17:17:45 UTC https://padlet.com/abigail_hofmeister/id9u5pjs7y3y/wish/204001677 abigail_hofmeister https://padlet.com/abigail_hofmeister/id9u5pjs7y3y/wish/204004574 The message of this piece was that, "The reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time." (Faulkner, 40) This was spoken by Addie in the beginning of the novel. When she says this, she was talking about the lack of purpose her life had - it seemed like a random series of events that didn't have a real meaning. Through the stream-of-consciousness format, Faulkner expresses major themes of life and death, and how we need to work to give our lives meaning and purpose to avoid such a nihilistic state.]]> 2017-11-06 17:22:48 UTC https://padlet.com/abigail_hofmeister/id9u5pjs7y3y/wish/204004574 abigail_hofmeister https://padlet.com/abigail_hofmeister/id9u5pjs7y3y/wish/204013074 What happens to Dewey Dell during the novel is really sad - I think it's the true tragedy of the novel. I wouldn't be surprised if she doesn't make it - if she does, she will continue to feel trapped and meaningless under these circumstances, like her mother.]]> 2017-11-06 17:37:28 UTC https://padlet.com/abigail_hofmeister/id9u5pjs7y3y/wish/204013074 abigail_hofmeister https://padlet.com/abigail_hofmeister/id9u5pjs7y3y/wish/204015479 2017-11-06 17:41:31 UTC https://padlet.com/abigail_hofmeister/id9u5pjs7y3y/wish/204015479 abigail_hofmeister https://padlet.com/abigail_hofmeister/id9u5pjs7y3y/wish/207318557 -Addie's monologue always gets to me, because it shows her trying to cope with the seeming uselessness of certain words and actions. I, too, have these thoughts sometimes - do the things I do and the words I say really matter?
-Dewey Dell seems to have a crisis concerning the morals of her parents and society vs. what she thinks she should do for herself. I relate to this, because I have found that as I grow older, I find certain differences in belief from that of my parents, and that can be hard to explain to them.
-Vardaman has a very difficult time coping with loss. I, too, find it very hard to come to terms with the loss of loved ones.]]> 2017-11-15 17:17:34 UTC https://padlet.com/abigail_hofmeister/id9u5pjs7y3y/wish/207318557 abigail_hofmeister https://padlet.com/abigail_hofmeister/id9u5pjs7y3y/wish/208688429 2017-11-20 13:19:42 UTC https://padlet.com/abigail_hofmeister/id9u5pjs7y3y/wish/208688429 abigail_hofmeister https://padlet.com/abigail_hofmeister/id9u5pjs7y3y/wish/208690921 “He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that any more than for pride or fear....One day I was talking to Cora. She prayed for me because she believed I was blind to sin, wanting me to kneel and pray too, because people to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too" (Faulkner, 26)]]> 2017-11-20 13:25:38 UTC https://padlet.com/abigail_hofmeister/id9u5pjs7y3y/wish/208690921 abigail_hofmeister https://padlet.com/abigail_hofmeister/id9u5pjs7y3y/wish/208691833
"How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.”
(Faulkner, 104)]]> 2017-11-20 13:27:38 UTC https://padlet.com/abigail_hofmeister/id9u5pjs7y3y/wish/208691833 abigail_hofmeister https://padlet.com/abigail_hofmeister/id9u5pjs7y3y/wish/208694965 “...the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.” 
(Faulkner, 25)]]> 2017-11-20 13:34:33 UTC https://padlet.com/abigail_hofmeister/id9u5pjs7y3y/wish/208694965